Nail-punch holder



oct. 11,1927. 1,644,948

1 POIRIER l l NAIL PUNCH HOLDER Filed Jan. 2l'. 1927 nvefvztor leo/7Pom/er v ByQwwm/MQ Patented Oct. 11, 1927.

UNTED STATS LEON POIRIER, OF TRACADIE, NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA.

NAIL-PUNCH HOLDER.

Application filed January 21, 1327. Serial No. 162,564.

"' single structural element formed from a the nail punch.

A further object is to provide a holder of this kind that may beassociated with Various shapes of hammer handles and this without anyliability of the holder becoming displaced therefrom.

lVith the foregoing and other objects in view as the nature of theinvention will be better understood, the same comprises the novel formof nail punch holder hereinafter more fully described, shown in theaccompanying drawing and claimed.

In the drawing wherein like reference characters indicate correspondingparts throughout the several views:

Figure l is a side elevation of a conventional hammer equipped with a.nail punch holder constructed in accordance with the present invention,a conventional type of nail punch being shown as disposed within theholder.

Figure 2 is a perspective of the holder per se, and

Figure 3 is a plan view of the sheet metal blank from which the holderis constructed.

Now having particular reference to'the drawing wherein there isdisclosed the most preferred embodiment of the invention with which I amat this time familiar, 5 indicates a length of sheet metal provided atone longitudinal edge an'd intermediate the ends thereof with a narrowtongue 6. In actual practice this length of sheet metal is so bent uponitself as to provide a generally oval shape double and spaced jaw clasp7 for snug fit upon the handle A of a hammer B, see Figure l.Intermediate the ends of the strip of material, the blank is so formedas to provide a horse shoe shaped clasp 8, the back wall of which iscontiguous with the tongue 6 of said blank. The tongue is rounded toconform to the curvature of the back wail of said clasp as indicatedfinFigure- 2.V

is disclosed in Figure l a nail punch C of conventional design isadapted to be forced into the clasp 9 while said tongue forms acontinuation thereof to provide an additional support for the nailpunch` It will thus be seen that I have provided a highly novel, simple,and eiiicient holder for nail punches that is well adapted f or all thepurposes heretofore designated and even though I have herein shown anddescribed tlie invention as consisting of a certain detail formation ofa metallic blank resulting in the provision of the holder it isnevertheless to Abe understood that some changes may be made thereinwithout affecting the spirit and scope of the appended claim.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is In a nail punch holder for hammers, a singlelength of sheet metal bent upon itself tol provide a double jaw claspfor engagement upon the handle of the hammer, a nail punch clasp at theside of said first mentioned clasp formed by further bending the lengthof metal intermediate the jaws of said lirst mentioned clasp, and atongue at one longitudinal edge of the length of sheet metalintermediate the ends thereof having contiguous relation with the backwall of the nail punch holder clasp for increasing the length ofsupporting surface for said nail punch.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

Leon POIRIER.

